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Stonybrook
Hunting Valley, Ohio | Established 1938
Hunting Valley, Ohio | Established 1938
Built in 1938 by David Sinton Ingalls (1899–1985), Stonybrook embodies the legacy of a distinguished Cleveland family whose influence reached far beyond the city, spanning American industry, aviation, and public service.
A decorated World War I pilot, Ingalls became the first flying ace in United States Navy history, credited with six aerial victories. He later served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics under President Herbert Hoover and held prominent leadership positions in American aviation and business.
Ingalls descended from two of America’s notable families. His father, Albert S. Ingalls, was a prominent railroad executive, while his mother, Jane Taft Ingalls, was the niece of President William Howard Taft. Through his marriage to Laura Harkness, he was also connected to the Standard Oil fortune and a philanthropic legacy that helped shape Cleveland’s leading cultural, educational, and medical institutions.
Stonybrook was among Hunting Valley’s original grand country estates, established as Cleveland’s industrial and business leaders sought the pastoral beauty of the eastern suburbs. Following the era of Euclid Avenue mansions and Bratenahl lakefront residences, families including the Wades, Van Sweringens, and Ingallses created a landscape of gracious country homes amid rolling pastures and wooded hillsides. Originally encompassing several hundred acres, Stonybrook remains a reflection of this distinctive chapter in Cleveland’s history.
An aviator throughout his life, Ingalls maintained a private airfield on the grounds, complete with hangars and a grass runway, from which he continued flying well into his later years. The family’s ties to Hunting Valley endured through his son, David Sinton Ingalls Jr., who later served as the village’s mayor.
In nearly nine decades, Stonybrook has changed hands only twice, both through private, off-market transactions, never having been publicly offered for sale. This rare continuity of stewardship has helped preserve the estate’s architectural character, natural beauty, and historic legacy.
Today, Stonybrook stands as an enduring expression of Cleveland’s country-estate heritage and of a family whose achievements helped shape the course of American history.
